“ WITSIUS, HERMANN (1636–1708) , Dutch theologian, was born at Enkhuysen, North Holland, and studied at Groningen, Leiden and Utrecht. He was ordained to the ministry, becoming pastor at Westwoud in 1656 and afterwards at Wormeren, Goesen and Leeuwaarden, and became professor of divinity successively at Franeker (1675) and at Utrecht (1680) . In 1698 he went to Leiden as the successor of Friedrich Spanheim the younger (1632–1701) . He died at Leiden on the 22nd of October 1708. ”